Halla Bol

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Part One
	January 1, 1989: Madras Hotel
	January 1, 1989: Aiming for the Chair
	January 1, 1989: The Performance
	January 1, 1989: The Attack
	January 1, 1989: Finding Our Way
	January 1, 1989: Saving Safdar
	January 1, 1989: Mohan Nagar Hospital
	January 1, 1989: Delhi Hospitals
	January 1, 1989: Escape
	January 1, 1989: Hiding
	January 2, 1989: Safdar’s Death
	January 2, 1989: Mala
	January 3, 1989: The Funeral Procession
	January 4, 1989: The Performance
	Summer 1987: My First Time with Janam
	Summer 1987: Faridabad
	Summer 1987: The State of Janam
Part Two
	The Early Years
	Early 1970S: Delhi University
	Early 1970S: Reviving IPTA
	1973: Janam Comes into Being
	1975: Emergency
	June 1979: Safdar Roy and Moloyashree Hashmi
	October 1978: The Turn to Street Theatre
	The 1980S: A Theory of Street Theatre
	1978: Samudaya and Belchi
	The 1980S: The Actors
	The Early 1980S: Ritwik Ghatak
	The Early 1980S: Audience Testimony
	The Early 1980S: The Spread of Street Theatre
	April 1982: The ‘Harijan’ Play
	The Mid-1980S: Writing for Children
	The Mid-1980S: Taking Theatre Seriously
	The Mid-1980S: Committee for Communal Harmony
	The Mid-1980S: Television and Documentaries
	1988: Pakistan
	Late-1980S: Ennui
Part Three
	1988: Reviving Janam
	Summer 1988: Aurat
	Summer 1988: Raja Ka Baja
	May 1988: Habib Tanvir
	June 1988: Adapting Premchand
	July 1988: Hanuman’s Tail
	July 1988: Chamelijaan
	July 1988: Guru and Shishya
	July 1988: Zohra Segal
	July 1988: Moneekadi
	July 1988: What is Acting?
	Autumn 1988: Training Ourselves
	October 1988: Reorganizing Janam
	October 1988: Ten Years of Street Theatre
	The 1980S: Delhi’s Working Class
	Organizing Workers
	October 1988: Organizing for the Strike
	October 1988: Writing Chakka Jaam
	November 1988: Performing Chakka Jaam
	November 1988: The Strike
	December 1988: Dreams
	December 1988: The Last Month
	The Doubter
Epilogue
Halla Bol, Translated by Neeraj Mallick
Note on Sources
Acknowledgements